“As it is an interest-rate subsidy, it is also a cross-border transfer of wealth, the ECB’s equivalent of the EU’s regional development fund (set up in 1975). Hence this is a further small step towards a single fiscal eurozone.

There could be a bigger step yet to come. The ECB might have to issue its own bonds to sterilise the money it is printing to buy sovereign debt. Such bonds, true “euro-bonds”, might face legal obstacles. Politicians and voters could well object.”

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